Baking

Hi, need cheese to move my baking skill up to 191...it says I can buy it at vendors anyone know where (what cities) and which vendors I can buy it in? (thanx for the help in advance).

After quite a few days running around Greater Faydark tracking pixie's and the odd brownie a friend told me about pixie nirvana! Yes, it means heading into Lesser Faydark but luckily for me I'm a druid and can turn myself into a wolf so the red (to me at level 34) brownie scouts ignore me and I can use track to make sure that horrible horse isn't around. I would probably go back to Gfay if it is.

Anyway, if you want to collect pixie dust and brownie bits quickly I would suggest getting to about level 35 and heading over to the Pixie Tower in Lesser Dark (Number 3 on the EQAtlas map), kill the tricksters with 1 hit, the pranksters with 2 hits and avoid the jongleurs - they have some nasty faction hits for good characters. There are enough of the tricksters and pranksters spawning to keep you busy.

Now, what seems to be happening, in both Gfay and Lfay is that killing the pixie's causes brownies to spawn. The ones in Gfay are level 3ish and are an easy kill. The ones that spawn in Lfay right near the pixie tower are brownie outcasts and they are level 31-33. They often spawned so close to me that I got messages that the outcast was buffing itself! I was able to solo them with my druid. Killing them as they spawn then killing more tricksters and pranksters will cause either another brownie outcast to spawn or Thistle Underbrush. Thistle is a bit of an undercon - he hits harder than the outcasts.

All of the brownies I killed in Lfay had brownie parts on them. They outcasts also have arrows on them which is for the Etched Ivy Leggings quest for rangers. Thistle drops Braided Ivy Cords - highly sought after by young druids. They sell for about 400pp on The Rathe server!

Hope this helps the dedicated bakers out there - I'm up to 153 so I have a few more brownies to kill yet!

I been trying to bake Zelniak meat found in Dawnshroud Peaks I attempted to combine with spices and jug of sauces, Short Bear, Skewers, Short Ale, Vinegar in every combnation still no luck has anyone out there found and recipes for Zelniak meat?

I am looking for some rennet. I have no idea what it is... but I need it to make cheese. Also, does anyone know if the dairy mixing spoons are consumed each attempt?

I'm starting a new server and stuff and such and things.... But i can across a few questions from my journeys there... first with is it true that they changed failures from wis to the highest skill? or is wis still the failure rate?

I am currently sitting at 142 and making Cakes (Birthday and Wedding). I am preparing for the next step but have found only 2 recipes, Dragon Meat Steaks and Cinna-Sticks. Does anyone know of any other recipes?


Balacki(Vallon Zek)
Yaagutu(Vallon Zek)

i got my skill in baking to 133 what should i try baking now to get it up further ty e-mail me at susand1947@charter.net please

I'm wondering (see me wonder) if the stats aquired from stat-enhancing food will last forever or just until it wears off and u need more food, I'm guessing the latter because then bakers would have the highest stats the easiest way. I guess im just wondering how long the effects last. thanks

In two nights (total about 4 hours of baking) I became a lvl 139 baker. I made a ton of fish rolls (from lvl 1 to 135) then made all kinds of pies from veggies, fruit, and berries that I had been foraging and saving (from 135 to 139 in about 10 minutes).

I gave most of my fish rolls away, or sold stacks for about 2pp. But then i got chewed out by another baker for selling them so cheap. He said that i was making it too hard to sell them at a decent price. When i asked him what a decent price was he said 5 to 10 pp per stack!! (5pp is 400% markup from cost!). The problem was that I couldn't find anyone to buy them for even 2pp per stack. He told me to go to East Commonlands and i did, but no one would buy them there either. And I'm still looking for someone to buy my delicious goods that i've slaved over for so long. Maybe I'm just impatient.

Baking is really fun, though. It's quite a novelty to be able to make cool things like pixie powder cinnesticks, berry pies, beer-braised mammoth, birthday cake, and lots of stat enhancing goodies that can't be bought at the local supermarket. Non-bakers get a kick out of buying things like that, too. I had a guy the other night slobering at my feet because he couldn't wait to get his hands on my fresh baked fruit pies. That is what makes baking a really fun hobby (especially for roleplayers).

Bottom line: It can be fun and good profit to bake, but very tedious and its sometimes hard to find buyers. I think the market is already too saturated, so i don't mind posting these "secrets" anymore.

FYI: Those who can forage (Rangers and Druids) make best bakers because we can get things other bakers can't, like veggies, cinnamon, rabbit meat, roots (for brewing), Tea leaves (for brewing), Marr cherries, and other cool stuff. Otherwise it might be expensive to buy these specialty items off of those who can forage, if you can find someone who doesn't eat them right away or is actually willing to sell them to you.

Zone-specific foraging chart: http://www.eqtraders.com/location/foraged.htm
Best recipe chart I've seen: http://www.eqtraders.com/secrets/recipes_baking.htm
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Edited, Tue Mar 26 00:24:10 2002

Hey all -

I decided I wanted to pick up a trade skill quickly and inexpensively this weekend. After looking around, it seemed that baking might be the trick. With an int/wis of around 80, and after about 20pp and a couple hours, I now possess a skill of 103 at baking. Here is the guide that I followed:

http://www.eqtraders.com/learn/learn_baking2.htm

Following the guide above, I went to Freeport to work on my skill. The guide did have you go out into E. Commons to get wings and frostings, but you can get those items in Freeport as well (noted in the Key NPC's paragraph below).

Key NPC's are:
1) Pincia Brownloe (unlabled building next to monk's guild, W. Freeport) - sells Spices, Jug of Sauces, and Frosting
2) Tarker Gargurd (Port Authority, E. Freeport) - sells fish
3) Lysa Truegreen (upstairs at the Academy of Arcane Sciences, W. Freeport) - sells bat wings

Ovens that I used are located at:
1) Traders Holiday (E. Freeport), but Grub and Grog is actually closer to Tarker Gargurd
2) Empty shop near Torligs Herbs & Medicines (W. Freeport) - building 14 on the following map: http://eqatlas.com/wfreeportmap.html

Trained Baking at my guild, and dropped a few extra points in. I hate watched the skill increase from 2 to 3, so I dropped points for a skill of 11. Just a personal preference.

(following the guide)
I) Phase I - Bat Wing Crunchies until Skill 46
This can all be done in W. Freeport - NEVER have to zone until your skill reaches 46.
Combine:
1 Bat Wing from Lysa Truegreen
1 Frosting from Pincia Brownloe
Use the oven in the empty shop near Torligs Herbs & Medicines.

II) Phase II - Fish Filets until Skill 82
Has to be done between W. Freeport (sauces) and E. Freeport (fish).
Combine:
1 Fresh Fish from Tarker Gargurd
1 Jug of Sauces from Pincia Brownloe
Use the oven in Phase I, or oven at Trader's Holiday. A successful combine results in 2 fish filets, so this actually starts to become profitable (sort of).

III) Phase III - Fish Rolls until Skill 135
Again, done between W. Freeport (bat wings) and E. Freeport (fish).
Combine:
1 Fresh Fish from Tarker Gargurd
1 Bat Wing from Lysa Truegreen
Use either oven from Phases II. Fish rolls are banquet food items and they are light - so they are desired by people who weight conscious.

I stopped at a Skill of 103. Currently, I am hunting in Great Divide, and just wanted a high enough skill to be able to make the tizmak steaks (+2str/+1sta). Pretty nice.

Good luch and happy baking.

Lets get a thread going: Please List location and any helpfull info on Special Meats here.

Gator Meat: Off nearly any Gator--all over EQ
Wolf,Bear,Lion: Off nearly any of them--all over
Bixie Parts: Off Nillipus the JumJum stealer--in Hobbittown


Keep adding please....

we iksars have the worst trouble baking, spider legs are hard to come by, and are not sold my merchants often, i found that killing pirahnah in the water in east cabilis gets me fresh fish, but bat wings are no where to be found. i just want to take my spit into cb and eat some slaves, but ill never raise my skill enough without ingreadients. any ideas ppl?

I am looking for a recipe using scorpion meat. I've tried, Spices, Sauces, and Garnish (in every combination). Any help would be appreciated.

Athelas
Master Baker Morell-Thule

The fastest way I have ever heard of to raise skill for characters with good faction in Freeport is to make fish rolls. Recipe is one fresh fish and one batwing. You can buy unlimited batwings from the casters guild in West Freeport and unlimited fresh fish from the merchants inside the port authority building in East Freeport. There are ovens in both of these zones or you can use a spit. This recipe trivializes at 135 if I remember correctly; which means at first you will be lucky to get one roll from a stack each of fish and batwings. To speed this up you can try to get a friendly (high level) Magician to cast Brilliance on you.